> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Steve Siegfried wrote: > >> OS rankings published by OneStat.com on 14Aug2006: >> >> > The 10 most popular operating systems in the world on the web are: >> > >> > 1. Windows XP 86.80% >> > 2. Windows 2000 6.09% >> > 3. Windows 98 2.68% >> > 4. Macintosh 2.32% >> > 5. Windows ME 1.09% >> > 6. Linux 0.36% >> > 7. Windows NT 0.24% >> > 8. Macintosh Power PC 0.15% >> >> ... >> >> > Methodology: A global usage share of xx percent >> > for OS Y means that xx percent of the visitors >> > of Internet users arrived at sites that are >> > using one of OneStat.com's services by using the >> > particular number of OS Y. All numbers mentioned >> > in the research are averages and all measurements >> > are normalised to the GMT timezone. Research is >> > based on a sample of 2 million visitors divided >> > into 20,000 visitors of 100 countries each day. > > > Is it possible that Linux machines don't identify as such? I don't know > why a machine would give it's OS to a web site! It seems like a bad idea, > so maybe Linux users avoid it. > > Linux definitely has more market share on the server, as you suggested. > It would part of the HTTP_USER_AGENT value, which is a standard CGI environment variable. Its included as part of the HTTP REQUEST data. Do a Google search on "browser identification" there are several sites on the web that will feed the information back to you. -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com http://www.jacku.com